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Speaker 1: Pastors and Christian leaders face a subtle but deadly temptation,
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Speaker 1: and it's this following a huge success, it's tempting to
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Speaker 1: assume that the outcome is tied to one's brilliance rather
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Speaker 1: than God's blessing. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuckswyndall recounts
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Speaker 1: the tragic story of a king who had everything military victories,
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Speaker 1: national fame, and decades of God's favor, yet in a
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Speaker 1: single moment of pride, it all came crashing down. Through
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Speaker 1: this forgotten account, Chuck reveals the crucial difference between movements
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Speaker 1: of God and monuments to self, offering a sobering warning
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Speaker 1: to anyone who serves in ministry.
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Speaker 2: Centuries ago, Isaiah painted a grand mural of the Lord's glorious.
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Speaker 3: Coming back to Earth. The scene is out in the wilderness,
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Speaker 3: rugged and formidable. In the distance, a voice cries out,
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Speaker 3: clear the way. Listen. It's the voice of someone shouting,
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Speaker 3: clear the way through the wilderness for the Lord. Make
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Speaker 3: a straight highway through the wasteland for our God. Fill
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Speaker 3: in the valleys and level the mountains and hills, Straighten
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Speaker 3: the curves and smooth out the rough places. Then the
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Speaker 3: glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people
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Speaker 3: will see it together. The Lord has spoken. Those words
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Speaker 3: appear in Isaiah forty, verses three through five. The picture
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Speaker 3: of God's glory his cavode, as we read in the
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Speaker 3: Hebrew language covode. Its basic meaning is to be heavy, weighty.
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Speaker 3: God is heavy with splendor and weighty magnificence. That's the idea.
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Speaker 3: In contrast to God's covode, Man's glory is as insubstantial
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Speaker 3: as a blade of grass that withers when the breath
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Speaker 3: of the Lord blows on it. Asaiah writes in verse seven. Yet,
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Speaker 3: how we loathe to admit that, how tempting it is
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Speaker 3: to claim the credit ourselves for the mighty works that
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Speaker 3: God alone does in and around us. Like a teenager
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Speaker 3: flaunting her mother's diamonds, we sometimes slip his royal robes
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Speaker 3: over our own tattered rags, and then strut around as
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Speaker 3: though they were ours. Perhaps no one feels that temptation
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Speaker 3: stronger than those who serve Him in public ministry, those
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Speaker 3: who have been called to hold His glory in sacred trust.
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Speaker 3: Whether their work becomes a movement of God or calcifies
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Speaker 3: into a mind to themselves depends really on one crucial factor,
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Speaker 3: and that factor is who gets the glory. No matter
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Speaker 3: how gifted we may be, no matter how valuable others
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Speaker 3: may think we are, no matter how many people hang
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Speaker 3: on our words or listen to our songs or heed
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Speaker 3: our counsel, we have no right whatever to take lightly
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Speaker 3: God's name, or eclipse his glory or rob him of
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Speaker 3: his praise. Soon as we do that, the movement of
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Speaker 3: God halts, and a monument to our own glory is erected.
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Speaker 3: And how quickly those monuments come crashing down, taking us
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Speaker 3: with them. There's a tragic example of this in the Scriptures.
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Speaker 3: It's about the rise and fall of a king whose
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Speaker 3: name was Usiah. I want to read his story as
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Speaker 3: it is recorded in Second Chronicles, Chapter twenty six, verses
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Speaker 3: one through twenty one. It's an amazing passage, so I
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Speaker 3: want you to listen carefully. Second Chronicles twenty six one begins.
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Speaker 3: All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen year
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Speaker 3: old son Usiah as king in place of his father.
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Speaker 3: After his father's death, Usiah rebuilt the town of Elath
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Speaker 3: and restored it to Judah. Usiah was sixteen years old
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Speaker 3: when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty
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Speaker 3: two years. His mother was Jekaliah from Jerusalem. He did
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Speaker 3: what was pleasing in the Lord's sight, just as his
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Speaker 3: father Amaziah had done. Usiah sought God during the days
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Speaker 3: of Zachariah, who taught him to fear God, and as
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Speaker 3: long as the king sought guidance from the Lord, God
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Speaker 3: gave him success. Usah declared war on the Philistines and
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Speaker 3: broke down the walls of Gath, Japne and Ashdod. Then
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Speaker 3: he built new towns in the Ashdod area and in
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Speaker 3: other parts of Phelistia. God helped him in his wars
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Speaker 3: against the Philistines, his battles with the Arabs of Gur,
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Speaker 3: and his wars with the Mellionites. The Millionites paid annual
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Speaker 3: tribute to him, and his fame spread even to Egypt,
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Speaker 3: for he had become very powerful. Usah built fortified towers
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Speaker 3: in Jerusalem at the corner gate, at the valley, and
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Speaker 3: at the angle in the wall. He also constructed forts
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Speaker 3: in the wilderness and dug many water cisterns. Because he
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Speaker 3: kept great herds of livestock in the foothills of Judah
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Speaker 3: and on the plains. He was also a man who
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Speaker 3: loved the soil. He had many workers who cared for
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Speaker 3: his farms and vineyards, both on the hillsides and in
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Speaker 3: the fertile valleys. Usaiah had an army of well trained
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Speaker 3: warriors ready to march into battle. Unit by unit. This
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Speaker 3: army had been mustered and organized by Jael, the secretary
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Speaker 3: of the army, and his assistant Mayasiah. They were under
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Speaker 3: the direction of Hananaiah, one of the king's officials. These
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Speaker 3: regiments of mighty warriors were commanded by two thousand, six
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Speaker 3: hundred clan leaders. The army consisted of three hundred seven thousand,
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Speaker 3: five hundred men, all elite troops. They were prepared to
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Speaker 3: assist the king against any enemy. Usiah provided the entire
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Speaker 3: army with shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows and slingstones,
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Speaker 3: and he built structures on the walls of Jerusalem designed
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Speaker 3: by experts to protect those who shot arrows and hurled
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Speaker 3: large stones from the towers and the corners of the wall.
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Speaker 3: His fame spread far and wide, for the Lord gave
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Speaker 3: him marvelous help, and he became very powerful. But when
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Speaker 3: he had become powerful, he also became proud, which led
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Speaker 3: to his downfall. He sinned against the Lord, his God
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Speaker 3: by entering the sanctuary of the Lord's temple and personally
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Speaker 3: burning incense on the incense altar. As Ariah the High
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Speaker 3: Priest went in after him with eighty other priests of
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Speaker 3: the Lord, all brave men. They confronted King Eusiah and said,
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Speaker 3: it is not for you, Usiah to burn incense to
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Speaker 3: the Lord. That is the work of the priests alone,
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Speaker 3: the descendants of Erin, who were set apart for this work.
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Speaker 3: Get out of the sanctuary, for you have sinned. The
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Speaker 3: Lord God will not honor you for this. Usiah, who
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Speaker 3: was holding an incense burner, became furious. But as he
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Speaker 3: was standing there raging at the priests before the incense
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Speaker 3: altar in the Lord's temple, leprosy suddenly broke out on
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Speaker 3: his forehead. When as Ariah, the High Priest and all
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Speaker 3: the other priests saw the leprosy, they rushed him out,
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Speaker 3: and the king himself was eager to get out because
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Speaker 3: the Lord had struck him. So King Uziah had leprosy
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Speaker 3: until the day he died. He lived in isolation in
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Speaker 3: a separate house, for he was excluded from the temple
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Speaker 3: of the Lord.
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Speaker 2: His son Jotham was put in charge of the royal palace,
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Speaker 2: and he governed the people of the land.
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Speaker 1: dot org slash offer Chuck title today's message Aziah, the
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Speaker 1: Leader who became a Loser.
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Speaker 2: I did not learn my theology first at seminary. I
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Speaker 2: learned it first at home. I learned it at the
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Speaker 2: knee of my mother. As a matter of fact, I
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Speaker 2: was only a preschooler when I heard my first serious
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Speaker 2: theological statement. As I recall in a frustrated moment, she
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Speaker 2: made the statement, which contained only ten words, but they
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Speaker 2: were memborable. May God help you if you ever do
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Speaker 2: that again. I learned at my mother's knee what the
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Speaker 2: fear of God was all about. I was a teenager, however,
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Speaker 2: before I asked my first serious theological question. And it
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Speaker 2: wasn't at home, and it wasn't in a church. It
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Speaker 2: was in a car. Let me explain. I come from
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Speaker 2: a musical family. My mother, now deceased, played wonderful piano
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Speaker 2: and sang lyrical soprano. She had a wonderful voice. In fact,
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Speaker 2: she taught piano for over thirty years. My sister sang
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Speaker 2: contralto and still sings beautifully. My brother sings bass, and
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Speaker 2: I sang tenor. It sounds like a country western tune.
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Speaker 2: And I give you that description, doesn't it. We used
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Speaker 2: to stand around the piano and my mother would play.
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Speaker 2: My father played a great harmonica. Most hymns don't have
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Speaker 2: that written in the score, so he sort of picked
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Speaker 2: what was left out and we made scary music. Four
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Speaker 2: years together as a family. One fall, early one fall,
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Speaker 2: my mom noticed in the Houston Press one afternoon that
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Speaker 2: there was a concert that would be given at the
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Speaker 2: downtown First Methodist Church under the direction of the Great
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Speaker 2: Walter Jenkins, who had led the master work of George
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Speaker 2: Frederick Handel four years. In fact, he hadn't memorized. He
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Speaker 2: was to direct choir that was to be a volunteer choir,
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Speaker 2: and we were to audition if we wanted to be
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Speaker 2: a part of that three hundred and fifty voice choir.
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Speaker 2: Mother thought that was a great idea. I was only fifteen.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't too sure about it, and yet we all auditioned,
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Speaker 2: and to everyone's surprise, we made it. And we began
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Speaker 2: a rehearsal, a series of rehearsals night after night for
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Speaker 2: about four or five weeks before we did our three performances.
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Speaker 2: It was with full choir, a full orchestra, and a
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Speaker 2: massive pipe organ, and being only fifteen years old, I
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Speaker 2: had never sung in anything that magnificent, and being tender
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Speaker 2: in spirit, especially as it relates to music, I will
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Speaker 2: never forget the night of the first performance, as Doctor
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Speaker 2: Walter Jenkins stood and just before he had us stand,
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Speaker 2: we listened to the tenor recitative comfort Ye, my people,
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Speaker 2: and then the ra Every valley, every mountain, every hill
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Speaker 2: made low. It's a wonderful rendition. And then we stood
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Speaker 2: after the aria for the first piece, which goes and
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Speaker 2: the glory, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
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Speaker 2: and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth
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Speaker 2: of the Lord hath spoken it. And I don't know
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Speaker 2: that I got more than about ten notes out before
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Speaker 2: I dissolved in tears. If you have ever sung in
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Speaker 2: a great choir, and if you've ever had the privilege
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Speaker 2: of being surrounded by great voices, that eclipse your own voice,
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Speaker 2: you know, something of the thrill of music, and we
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Speaker 2: were singing of something that was transcendent. In fact, the
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Speaker 2: peace concludes, as only Handel could have chosen with worthy
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Speaker 2: is the lamb that was slain to receive power and
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Speaker 2: riches and wisdom and honor and glory and blessing. Glory.
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Speaker 2: I wrote home that evening in the back of the car.
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Speaker 2: My dad was so thrilled to have had us all
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Speaker 2: in the performance, and my brother and sister and mother
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Speaker 2: were talking of it. I was very quiet. I was
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Speaker 2: struggling with the word. In fact, I asked the question,
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Speaker 2: what is that glory? I could understand power and riches
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Speaker 2: and wisdom and honor and blessing, but glory? What is that?
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Speaker 2: We got home and I checked the World Book and
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Speaker 2: didn't even have it listed. And then I went to
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Speaker 2: Webster's Dictionary and found a magnificent series of definition synonyms.
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Speaker 2: Really great honor and admiration, worshipful, adoration, splendor, magnificence. It
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Speaker 2: was about twelve thirteen years later I was in my
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Speaker 2: second year at Dallas Seminary under the very capable instruction
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Speaker 2: of doctor Bruce Walke, and in a Hebrew course that
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Speaker 2: was tough. And yet I did a quick flashback to
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Speaker 2: my year when I was fifteen in that car as
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Speaker 2: doctor Walke was going over a particular word he discovered
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Speaker 2: and amplified for us out of Isaiah's prophecy, and it
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Speaker 2: was cobbo kabod for heaviness. And he struck a chord
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Speaker 2: in my mind when he said, and this is the
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Speaker 2: word for glory three hundred and seventy six times used
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Speaker 2: in the Hebrew scriptures, forty five of those times, and
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Speaker 2: rightly so, used only of our God, who is the
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Speaker 2: King of glory. My heart leaped within me, the King
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Speaker 2: of heaviness, the heaviest of all the heavies. He is
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Speaker 2: the one who is impressive and noteworthy. He is the
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Speaker 2: one who is full of praise, worthiness, and splendor and adoration.
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Speaker 2: The passage we were looking at in the Hebrew class
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Speaker 2: was Isaiah forty two five through eight. I direct your
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Speaker 2: attention to this significant section of scripture. I learned of
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Speaker 2: the fear of God from my mother. But I learned
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Speaker 2: of the glory of God from my God himself, through
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Speaker 2: the art of music and the magnificence of that choral
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Speaker 2: from the teaching of a mentor and the intricate workings
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Speaker 2: of the Hebrew text, but mainly in the years to follow,
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Speaker 2: from God himself. And I dedicate this message today to
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Speaker 2: all of us engaged in ministry of any kind, ministry
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Speaker 2: of the Word, ministry of music, ministry of education, ministry
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Speaker 2: of counseling. This is a message for us to take
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Speaker 2: and hold as a sacred trust. I have a sense
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Speaker 2: of timing in this that it is the right occasion
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Speaker 2: to speak it. We are watching these days with an
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Speaker 2: ache in our hearts, as kingdoms of men are crumbling
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Speaker 2: about them that once were under the guise of ministry.
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Speaker 2: And we sorrow, We grieve as we watch fellow men
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Speaker 2: and women falling in ministry because of the failure to
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Speaker 2: hold the glory, the heaviness, the splendor that belongs only
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Speaker 2: to God, and failing to give it all to him.
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Speaker 2: They've taken it, and they've loved it, and it's ruined them,
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Speaker 2: and it could ruin us just as well, any one
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Speaker 2: of us. Isaiah writes of God's own Word forty two five.
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Speaker 2: Thus says God, the Lord who created the heavens and
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Speaker 2: stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its
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Speaker 2: offspring who gives breath to the people on it and
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Speaker 2: spirit to those who walk in it. I am Yahweh.
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Speaker 2: I am the Lord. I've underlined that I am the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Does that mean we have no part in his ministry
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Speaker 2: and in his work?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: Look at the list of things that follow. I have
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Speaker 2: called you, so we have been called. I have called
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Speaker 2: you in righteousness. I will also hold you for the hand.
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Speaker 2: We are being helped, we are being guided. I will
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Speaker 2: watch over you. We are being protected as in a
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Speaker 2: shield of God's divine providence. I will watch over you. Furthermore,
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Speaker 2: I the Lord will appoint you. Look at this He
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Speaker 2: will use us. I will appoint you a covenant to
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Speaker 2: the people. Look at the areas of ministry as a
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Speaker 2: light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to bring
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Speaker 2: out prisoners from the dungeon, and those who dwell in
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Speaker 2: darkness from the prison. I am the Lord. He repeats
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Speaker 2: it in scripture for emphasis. Exclamation points weren't used, repetition
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Speaker 2: is used. I am the Lord.
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Speaker 3: I am the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Remember it. That's my name, he says in verse eight.
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Speaker 2: It's not your name, and it is not for you
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Speaker 2: to use lightly or mis hughes.
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Speaker 3: Or abuse.
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Speaker 2: I will not give my glory to another. There it
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Speaker 2: is again, come oath. It is my heaviness of splendor,
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Speaker 2: and I won't let you borrow it. I won't let
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Speaker 2: you take it. Nor my praise will I give to
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Speaker 2: graven images. The word is idols. You build idols. My
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Speaker 2: praises don't go to your idols, you build empires. They
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Speaker 2: do not receive my praises. My praises come unto me,
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Speaker 2: and come unto my works. They come unto my name.
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Speaker 3: It is true.
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Speaker 2: In John seventeen twenty two, Jesus, in a prayer speaks
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Speaker 2: of the glory that God gave to him, and he
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Speaker 2: in turn gives to his own. But he tells us
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Speaker 2: there it is for the purpose of unity. In other words,
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Speaker 2: he gives his glory to the church as a body
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Speaker 2: of people to represent in unity his message and his works.
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Speaker 2: John who writes that, also is the one who writes
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Speaker 2: in the third letter words of great rebuke to Diotrophies,
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Speaker 2: who attempted to take the place of the Lord in
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Speaker 2: the church. And he loved first place, says John. And
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Speaker 2: he brings words of reproof to diotrophies. So this is
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Speaker 2: not to be confused with that sharing of the glory.
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Speaker 2: In John seventeen, this is unto the Lord. I am
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Speaker 2: the Lord, that is my name. I will not give
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Speaker 2: my glory to another, no matter how gifted, no matter
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Speaker 2: how useful, no matter how valuable, no matter how many
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Speaker 2: people follow, no matter how many hang on your words
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Speaker 2: and listen to your records and sing your songs, no
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Speaker 2: matter how many would say you're the reason I'm still alive.
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Speaker 2: From your wise counsel, I am the Lord. My glory
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Speaker 2: I will not give to you, and I will not
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Speaker 2: give my praises to your idols. That's the formula, very
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Speaker 2: simple formula to follow that will keep a ministry a
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Speaker 2: movement of God rather than a monument unto ourselves. Number one,
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Speaker 2: remember his name. Number two, reflect his glory. Number three,
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Speaker 2: Rejoice in his praises. Remember his name, Reflect his glory.
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Speaker 2: Rejoice in his praises. Hold all of it in a
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Speaker 2: sacred trust. No amount of time in ministry ever gives
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Speaker 2: anyone the right to take his name, or eclipse his glory,
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Speaker 2: or steal his praises. The tragedy is the longer we're
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Speaker 2: in ministry, the more loosely we handle such statements, and
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Speaker 2: the easier it is to rationalize around the fact that
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Speaker 2: we are abusing the right of ministry. Let me give
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Speaker 2: you a statement that represents everything I have to say.
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Speaker 2: Ministry monuments result in disaster. Ministry monuments finally crumble, and
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Speaker 2: disaster occurs. J Oswald Sanders, in a book You Must
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Speaker 2: Buy and Read Spiritual Leadership, writes egotism is one of
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Speaker 2: the repulsive manifestations of pride. It is the practice of
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Speaker 2: thinking and speaking much of oneself, the habit of magnifying
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Speaker 2: one's attainments or importance. It leads one to consider everything
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Speaker 2: in its relation to himself, rather than in relation to
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Speaker 2: God and the welfare of his people. The leader, who
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Speaker 2: has for long been admired and deferred to by his
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Speaker 2: followers is in great danger of succumbing to this peril.
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Speaker 1: This is inside for living. Hold your place right here,
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Speaker 1: because there's much more to this dramatic story that Chuck
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Speaker 1: Swindall wants to show us. It's a cautionary tale for
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Speaker 1: anyone in leadership. Chuck titled today's message Azaiah, the Leader
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Speaker 1: who Became a Loser. It's the final study in a
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Speaker 1: fourteen part series called Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives and
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Speaker 1: it concludes on Monday's program. Inside for Living has chosen
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Speaker 1: lesser known Bible characters. Each one teaches us deep lessons
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Speaker 1: about life. Some are heroes, others are casualties of their
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Speaker 1: own making. But with each one, Chuck has a remarkable
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Speaker 1: ability to resurrect these forgotten lives from a verse or
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Speaker 1: two of Scripture. Suddenly you're not reading about ancient history.
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Speaker 1: You're sitting across from someone who knows what it's like
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Speaker 1: to yearn for more. Fascinating stories of forgotten lives. Brings
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Speaker 1: these encounters to life, whether you're starting your morning with
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